21st Century Socks

It's good to Stop

This week has been quieter at work. On Thursday we had the parents evening for Daisy. The message that came across was what I suspected. They all think she will do well but she must work harder. They hold the event in a large dinner hall. All the tables are in lines with two rows of seats facing each other across the table. To one side is another row of seats then a table. To the other side there are two rows of seats back to back. Parents sit on this row waiting for teachers to be free and then move to the seats by the table.
The teachers all have their names displayed on the table in alphabetical order.
We asked her Maths teacher if he did private tuition and he said he did but wasn’t sure it would be right for Daisy.
In IT, see previous posts, we tackled the teacher over the course change. “She will end up with 4 GCSE’s” the teacher repeated like a mantra. “No” I said “she will have done two twice”. Eventually she conceded the point and tried to re-assure me that “thousands” of other children across the region and country were in the same boat. Ok we’d made our point.
We wanted to ambush the Art teacher as our last port of call. His surname begins with “A” so he was near the door. Before seeing him we had to wait to see her form (class) teacher, Mrs C. We sat with our backs to him. By the time with saw the form teacher he was gone and Mrs C was able to tell us she’d seen him leave! I’m not sure what to do now but if I get home early I’ll pop up to the school unannounced.

Events

At work our accounts department is being relocated to India. The initial phase involves a handover. Not surprisingly no one is over keen to export their jobs.

I’m told in future all expenses will be scanned and sent out. The inevitable outcome is going to be non payment with the employee picking up the bill.

I went on a driving course. The company has found that a refresher driving course every 2-3 years help reduce accidents. One of the things they do is the "No Stop Challenge". It involves making a journey without ever coming to a complete stop. I see it as a bit pointless. My colleague managed his journey with just one or if being critical two stops.
I not only broke double figures I was up in the twenty's. I hit on a phrase "Its' good to stop". the instructor was suitably impressed.

House
The tomatoes are fading fast and I don’t expect to see another one turn red.

posted by 21stCenturySocks @ 3:18 PM